Oysters are amazing. Like Beavers - they create a wonderful habitat for other wildlife and they absorb carbon - helping the fight against the climate crisis. Mother Nature's very own carbon capture machines. It’s a perfect combination. Rewilding and decarbonisation.
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Energy bills will be lower and more stable after this - considerably. Inflation will be lower, lending rates will be lower - our economy will be bigger and stronger. Finally, Britain gets ready to break the link..:)
The Mirror on breaking the link. Four years of campaigning, three reports and some shocking economic facts unearthed - and we, Ecotricity have achieved a significant win for the people of Britain.
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Ecotricity did it - after four years of campaigning to reform our energy market by ‘breaking the link’ - our government just announced it will. Our bills will be lower, so will inflation and bank lending rates, our economy bigger and stronger.
This ‘link’ has profound impact on our whole economy - you can read our report here: www.datocms-assets.com/166710/17694...
I wrote this for the FT a few months ago - and have been sharing the numbers with DESNZ and the Treasury for some time.
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Labour appears to be getting serious about ‘breaking the link’ - this is the single biggest thing they can do to tackle energy bills in this crisis and beyond. The benefits are huge, in the last crisis this link cost the taxpayer £70Billion.
Food wrapped in food, makes a lot of sense to me. Will simplify recycling, the packaging can go in the same bin as the food.
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Bit of fun yesterday - these guys are shooting a tv show on Sustainability in Sport so naturally wanted to ask how we do things at FGR. Nice of them to swing by....from Japan…:)
We can find £600m for tech that might help us in ten years (big bold announcement) - but not the courage to take on this foolish market mechanism.
Shame.
Why won't Labour grasp this nettle - we need to break the link between the price of fossil gas and the price of all other forms of electricity made here. That (and only that) can bring bills down immediately. And protect us for the future. Legislation to do it exists - only the will seems missing.
Global fossil markets do. So these nukes could appear tomorrow, could even make affordable energy - but it won't affect our electricity bills at all - because all of the stuff we make here is priced somewhere else.
And that’s not all. Rachael Reeves is right to flag the importance of making our own energy here, to protect us from future crises - but she overlooks the elephant in the room (no not Trump) - we don't set the price of electricity made here, whether from the wind, sun or nuclear.
This crisis will be over by then and the ones that will follow. How on earth can anyone think that something coming in ten years is an answer to a crisis we’re in right now?
This sentiment get’s worse when we hear that this mini nuke investment is intended as an answer to the middle east inspired - second fossil fuel crisis of this decade so far. The ‘hope’ is to have the first three up and running by 2035, nine whole years from now.
Amazing collection this, of hope over reason. Britain just invested £600m into Rolls Royce’s ‘mini nuke’ program - that was always coming. But here we see it’s being done in the hope that these things can be built faster than the big versions that are slow and always late. Hope.
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Agree. What more can I say….:)
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When we appointed Hannah we were accused of a publicity stunt by some - which is classic (sexist attitude), the assumption being Hannah couldn’t possibly have got the job on merit.
That’s the attitude we need to end.
We recruit regardless of gender, race, religion etc etc - the only thing that matters is who looks best suited for the job. Women leading top flight European men’s teams is a very big thing, though really it shouldn’t be.
A trend started at Forest Green, when we appointed Hannah Dingley to head our men’s Academy and then lead our men’s first team.
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Online they got it right, same story different headline - ‘Allowing new North Sea drilling would be a betrayal’.
I’ve not attacked Rachael Reeves or accused her of a betrayal - my point is breaking this manifesto pledge would be a betrayal and Labour should be clear eyed about this.
Another day another headline fact check.
The Sunday Times misrepresent what I said with this headline, before painting the truer picture in their article. Funny thing is, this is the paper version.
Trump is a spectacularly failing populist, dragging his country and his party down with him - Farage would do well to look for another playbook to copy.
It’s all so very Trumpian, politicians promoting stuff they have a stake in.
No surprise really since Farage has already mimicked Trump in so many ways - his obsessions with DOGE and ICE being two good examples.
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Is that Epstein Trump is trying to heal..?..:)
Chief among them is to 'break the link’ between global fossil prices (which are the root of our problems) and our own green energy made here. Long term we need to get off fossil fuels, it’s a destructive habit.
Rachael Reeves is right to identify that as a mistake and to avoid a repeat - but wrong to conclude the answer is drilling in the North Sea. Short term the answer is energy market reform - we’re being ripped off for the sake of three key changes that could halve bills.
The last energy crisis was bigger, we modelled the numbers to show the Treasury it’s macro economic impact - adding 1.5 percentage points to inflation, 1% to Bank lending rates and 1 million people to the poverty list…..despite the £70billion un targeted spending by the Tories.
The Resolution are not wrong - to a degree they’re stating the obvious. Of course living standards will be hit.
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